Welcome EETT teachers and administrators!
This is an exciting day to at last come together and begin building our EETT community. Improving student performance in language arts through multimodal/multimedia reading and writing is the goal of this grant. You and your students are at the heart of the grant.
Throughout the school year, we’ll be exploring new possibilities for teaching and learning in a digital age. We’ll be working with filmmaking, blogging, podcasting, wikis and other collaborative writing tools – and documenting the many ways technology integration plays out in your classrooms.
What do you hope to gain from your year-long participation in the 2008 EETT grant? As we go through the day, please jot down your thoughts on the 4-Square handout.
To start our journey into Web 2.0, let’s start with Did You Know, created collaboratively by Karl Fisch and Scott McCloud:
In today’s session, we’ll explore Writing Project strategies for keeping a writer’s notebook and also begin a dialog with filmmaker/teacher Mathew Needleman on video in the elementary curriculum. We’ll also visit the award-winning (SEVAs 2008) film The Myth of Romulus and Remus, directed and produced by David Reese Elementary students in Terri Mill’s 6th grade classroom.
We’ll also start exploring free tools you can bring into the classroom, such as Wordle, a program that transforms thoughts into “tag clouds.” We’ll end the day with Krishna’s quick trip into filmmaking strategies – and, of course, take time for any unanswered questions.
We really value your ideas, your questions, your concerns, and your suggestiosn. For a starter, please join in this conversation and let us know what you hope to learn/gain from participating in this highly collaborative journey.
Again, welcome to EGUSD’s 2008 EETT grant!
I am so excited! What an amazing experience! I think this will be such a great learning experience for both myself and my kids. I hope to walk away with an understanding for video and film making, enough to impliment in my classroom. I know this will be such a treat for them, they will love coming to school and letting those creative juices flow!
I’ve learned a lot about movie making so far. I guess at this point, I hope to learn to how to incorporate this media into our curriculum requirements in the most effective way. We’re so standards based, we all need to know that we’re meeting standards requirements as we use this wonderful, fun technology.
I am feeling a bit overwhelmed at the moment…so much information, and I’m sure I’ll forget how to do many things, but I am excited and can’t wait to get started. Adding transitions and effects was a lot of fun and makes a simple still picture much more interesting.
I hope that the information I am able to pass on to my students provides them with the building blocks for the next step in movie and computer literacy, will expand their horizons and interests, and will instill in them a new confidence grown from new success.
I hope to learn how to make teaching more fun through technology and movie making. This will teach and help my students have a better understanding about 21st century literacy. Students will also have a knowlege about different career options through movie making.
I am very excited about utilizing everything that I have learned about technology. I am also excited to learn and experience moviemaking with my students and my own children!
This is so cool! I will learn this movie making together with my students. Who knows, one day one of my students may be an amazingly famous movie maker. Patience and dilligence is needed.